By Perry Anderson, New Left Review,
Editorial, March–April 2002. Whatever sense is given
to internationalism, its meaning logically depends
on some prior conception of nationalism, since it only has
currency as a back-construction referring to its
opposite. Yet while nationalism is of all modern political
phenomena the most value-contested—judgements of its
record standardly varying across a 180-degree span.

By Serge Latouche, Le Monde diplomatique,
December 2003. What if the very idea of
growth—accumulating riches, destroying the
environment and worsening social inequality—is a
trap? Maybe we need to aim to create a society that is
based on quality not quantity, on cooperation and not
competition.

UWA Extension Summer School Lecture by John Pilger,
Winthrop Hall, The University of Western Australia, 12
January 2004. It's possible to assess fairly how our
world is controlled and divided, and manipulated—and
how language and debate are distorted and a false
consciousness developed. When we speak of this in regard
to totalitarian societies and dictatorships, we call it
brainwashing. It's a notion we almost never apply to
our own societies.

By Richard Falk, 1 February 2004. We may be approaching
a Gandhian Moment where there occurs a worldwide revulsion
against war and violence. Should this hopeful possibility
be actualised, it will almost certainly be a result of
that other side of Gandhi's vision, the struggle
against the forces of oppression.

By Mumia Abu-Jamal, from death row, 8 June 2004. The
distinction between retail terrorism and state
terrorism. When a state unleashes its power against
innocents, it's acceptable collateral damage; when a
group does it, it's animalistic evil and sheer
barbarity. The media's innate bias in favor of
nation-states and corporate power makes state violence the
norm and thus makes it virtually invisible.

By H.B. Paksoy, July 2004. Lectures prepared for the
Course entitled Rewriting History: Emerging Identities
and Nationalism in Central Asia. At the Central
European University, Budapest, July 2004. How and for what
purpose technology is created? How does technology serve
humanity? What does humanity expect from technology? How
are those relations regulated and by whom?

By H. B. Paksoy, Budapest, July 2004. Lectures prepared
for the Central European University, Budapest, July
2004. In the scheduled Course entitled Rewriting
History: Emerging Identities and Nationalism in Central
Asia, H.B. Paksoy, D. Phil. Under the rule of
‘whisker governance’ many organizations are
fostered by sycophants. When there is no recourse to an
independent judiciary, whose interests are also shared by
the population, then no one person's life is
safe.